Trial and Error (film)

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Trial and Error
Directed by	Jonathan Lynn
Produced by	Jonathan Lynn Gary Ross
Written by	Sara Bernstein Gregory Bernstein
Starring	Michael Richards Jeff Daniels Charlize Theron Rip Torn
Distributed by	New Line Cinema
Release date(s)	May 30, 1997
Running time	98 mins
Language	English
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Trial and Error is a film released in 1997 by New Line Cinema starring Michael Richards, Jeff Daniels, and Charlize Theron. It is about an attorney's actor friend takes his place in court, defending the boss's hopelessly guilty relative.

[edit] Plot

Charlie Tuttle (Jeff Daniels) is a partner in a successful law firm who is supposed to go to Paradise Bluff, Nevada to request a continuance in a case. But that conflicts with his bachelor's party so his best man, actor Richard Rietti (Michael Richards), drives him out to Paradise Bluff and shows his friend a great time instead. During the night, Charlie gets knocked out in a barfight and gets prescribed some painkillers. The next day (the day of the court appearance), Richard checks on his friend and finds he has taken all of the pills in the bottle. Charlie winds up in no shape to appear in court that day as the representative of Benny Gibbs (Rip Torn), Charlie's boss' hopelessy guilty relative, so Richard impersonates Charlie and the case ends up going to trial with an actor posing as the defendant's lawyer.

[edit] Cast

Actor/Actress	Role
Michael Richards	Richard Rietti
Jeff Daniels	Charlie Tuttle
Charlize Theron	Billie Tyler
Jessica Steen	Elizabeth Gardner
Austin Pendleton	Judge Paul Z. Graff
Rip Torn	Benjamin Gibbs
Alexandra Wentworth	Tiffany Whitfield
Jennifer Coolidge	Jacqueline Turreau
Lawrence Pressman	Whitfield
Dale Dye	Dr. German Stone
Max Casella	Dr. Brown
McNally Sagal	Charles' Assistant
Kenneth White	Hank Crabbit
Keith Mills	Buck Norman
Zaid Farid	Bailiff